I was just curious... How long post ovulation did you start getting pregnancy symptoms? I know many say that soon after they have unexplainable tiredness before any other symptoms.

What was your experience?

May 19th, 2013, 11:20 PM

crunchymama

I think in another thread, someone posted that alot of the time PMS-type symptoms very closely resemble early pregnancy symptoms. I would agree with that. I don't usually have low energy/extreme fatigue as a PMS symptom though and I have had that in early pregnancy as one of my first symptoms-- but not until around test time (I don't test before 12-14 DPO and I've gotten positives as early as 12 DPO before). My one early "symptom" is spotting. Some people don't believe implantation spotting (can't really call it implantation bleeding because it's never much more than a few spots) but for me personally, this is a very good indicator. I don't ever have it if I'm not pregnant, but I've had it a few time when I am. It has happened between day 7 and day 9 (not multiple days- just one day during that period) after ovulation. I have been tracking my cycle for almost 10 yrs on and off so I checked back with my positive pregnancy charts to remember the exact days.
The only other note I see on my chart with #2's positive test is "dizzy" which I reported days 7-9 DPO that month. :) I used to be alot better about charting more info, but I got out of that habit as we stopped actively TTC.

May 20th, 2013, 12:17 AM

rowangreeneyes

I'd say every symptom you can find online would be reasonable. Everyone is different, so someone else's early symptoms could be totally different from yours. You have to find out what is normal for you.

I always get the mother load of terrible symptoms with PMS... sore boobs, mood swings, cramps, lower back ache, headaches, increased hunger, nausea, fatigue. But when I was pregnant, there was an eerie lack of symptoms besides the fatigue. I got some nausea and mood swings later on in the pregnancy, probably around 8-9 weeks. But my very early symptoms were hardly worth mentioning to be honest.

May 20th, 2013, 12:53 AM

whit32

With both of my pregnancies (not my ectopic because my hormones were off) I got symptoms at 7 dpo. They were weird symptoms though and different each time. My first pregnancy, I was in the mountains at the time and it was really cold at night. When I started nipping it hurt like crazy. It felt like I was being stabbed through the chest. I had to get in the shower to warm up to get them to stop hurting. This was one week before I found out I was pregnant. That lovely symptom lasted my entire pregnancy and until I had been breastfeeding my son for a couple weeks. Then my nipples finally went numb ;-)
This time around, I started having crazy dreams, again at 7 dpo. I always have pretty interesting dreams, but they really kicked it up a notch. After a couple days of these dreams, I started wondering if I was pregnant (because that had been one of my symptoms in my first pregnancy). One week later, I found out that I was.
Fatigue and nausea are big symptoms for me too, but both times they didn't start till 5 weeks.

May 20th, 2013, 03:39 AM

malk

About 7dpo as well. I started feeling very queasy and tired and with this pg I had increased discharge. Even with my chemical pgs I knew I was pg early on, but my progesterone was low so I could feel them fail before the test showed a negative. The only pgs I wasn't absolutely positive I was pg before I tested was the one I miscarried.

May 20th, 2013, 06:36 AM

leadmythoughts

At first I was just really tired, but then I started to be very achy. My muscles hurt, and my hips were killing me. I thought it was a combo of PMSing/the flu, but then it never progressed to real sickness...and I didn't get better, either, or get my period.

I can't really remember how soon my symptoms started. A week after conception I went into the city with friends and was supposed to stay over, but I came home early because I was tired. It didn't seem unusual, though. 12 DPO I stayed home from class because I felt flu-ish. I tested 3 or 4 days after my missed period (almost 5w gestation).

May 20th, 2013, 10:32 PM

kibby

When I was pregnant several years ago now, my first symptom was a very weird type of cramp. I do not get cramps, at all, never, when my monthly comes around, and I had just the weirdest twinge cramp, like someone had pinched my uterus from the inside. That was my first indication that something was up! (I tested the next day! I ended up testing 3 days before my expected period, got a bright positive within moments! The lines appeared as the screen initially glazed over!) I was roughly 3 weeks pregnant when I found out, within about a week of that, I had nausea, but not much else. My breasts never hurt, I never spotted, I don't recall being particularly tired at any point or anything like that though, just a constant dizzy, "I-think-I-want-to-throw-up" sort of feeling.

May 20th, 2013, 10:56 PM

goodhope

My first and only pre-test symptom showed up at 8 DPO. I presume it was caused by implantation. Basically, it was a strange cramp, more like a vague "tightening" sensation--as if the right and left sides of my abdomen (way down low) were pulling slightly toward the middle. It was so mild, I probably wouldn't have noticed it if I hadn't been obsessively tracking every tiny change in my body. Late last year, I noticed the same sensation and right away suspected I was pregnant because that's the only time I've ever felt anything quite like it. I was right, although that pregnancy didn't stick.

Other than this feeling, my earliest pregnancy symptoms were indistinguishable from my normal PMS symptoms: weepiness, a little bloating, mild headache. The night before I got my BFP for my first pregnancy (the sticky one), I was so convinced I was going to start my period during the night that I wore a pad to bed. I didn't have any breast tenderness, tiredness, increased urination, odor sensitivities, or nausea like some people do. Those came later for me.

May 21st, 2013, 07:28 AM

lineska

Around 7dpo a tiny tiny bit of spotting
Closer to 10dpo, sore boobs, hit-by-a-bus tired, and really thirsty all the time.
BFP at 14dpo

May 23rd, 2013, 04:11 PM

rin

With my first pregnancy, I was about a week late (according to my calculations...although my cycle was quite irregular then, and the previous month my period was about 10 or 11 days late so I was feeling a bit up in the air about when to actually expect it), I was beginning to suspect something was up, and while out walking with my boyfriend I had a strange cramp sensation like a few others have described, low and laterally across my uterus. I remember thinking, Huh...that was weird, I'll test tomorrow. So I did, and I was. About a week later the sore boobs set in and hung around for quite a few weeks, I had very mild nausea from week 6 to 7 ish. Then barely any symptoms at all, I remember googling things like "8 weeks pregnant, lack of symptoms" etc!

With my second my cycles were much more reliable, so I knew when to expect AF a lot better. My first indication was a complete lack of my usual pre-menstrual symptoms, the big indicator being that I usually break out 3 or 4 days out from it arriving. That hadn't happened, then while AF was still a day or so out I had a tingly sensation in my breasts so decided to go out and get a test to use the next day. Used it first thing and got a positive, the line was quite faint, but definitely there. No sore boobs this time around, extreme tiredness though and I'd feel queasy for most of the day from about 5ish weeks to 12ish weeks.